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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 1d

The former control room of a WW2 decoy site, in a remote location up in the Berkshire Downs (we had permission to access and film here).

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DCS Heritage @dcs-heritage.bsky.social · 1d

21 Oct 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar was a decisive British naval victory against the French & Spanish. Nelson secured British naval supremacy for the next century.

HMS Victory was built at Chatham Dockyard & can be visited @phdockyard.bsky.social

Painting: The Fall of Nelson, Denis Dighton

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Tin Girl @tinnedgirl.bsky.social · 1d

New Menna Elfyn is out!

Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight, Tuesday 21 October, 7pm: our online launch event with Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright. Watch live or later via YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/DhDrtmZ...

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 1d

Still thinking about the words that would have dissolved into the waters of this Irish Lake - a truly remarkable object in the National Museum of #Ireland. #envhist #lakes

The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · Sep 11

4/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book

It was broken apart in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake...

Now we've digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social

Follow until post #6 18/09 to see the full shrine

Top Panel, Lough Kinale Shrine - 3D model by The Discovery Programme (@discoveryprogramme)

The front of the Lough Kinale Shrine comprises 4 tinned bronze sheets overlying the oak lid. A large cross with cusped cross arms decorated with birds heads & expanded terminals dominate the front.…

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Welsh Country @welshcountry.bsky.social · 1d

#thenationallibraryofwales #nationallibraryofwales #librarywales

Climate Action Programme Lead for the Culture Sector

The National Library of Wales announced the appointment of Judith Musker Turner as Climate Action Programme Lead for the culture sector.

www.welshcountry.co.uk

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 1d

“The dead, thrown back as they fell, lay along the middle of the decks in heaps, and the shot, passing through these, had frightfully mangled the bodies. . . . More than four hundred had been killed and wounded, of whom an extraordinary proportion had lost their heads.” #TrafalgarDay

An Atcherley at Trafalgar

When Captain James Atcherley [] of the Royal Marines set off from the Conqueror to take possession of a stricken enemy vessel during the Battle of Trafalgar, he could not have anticipated what awaited...

www.atcherley.org.uk

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Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 1d

We adore this image of the Gaymers cider packaging team. Why not honour #appleday with a refreshing bottle of cider or a chilled glass of apple juice?

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Eliza Bennet @elizabennet.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Aberfan today

This is the little clock that sat on a teacher’s desk at Pantglas Junior School, Aberfan. It stopped for ever at 09:13 on 21st October 1966 when an unstable coal tip engulfed the school. 116 children and 28 adults were killed.

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 1d

Laid out in 1887 as the town’s main shopping street, Station Road was the centre of a popular shopping centre in North Wales up to the 1960s. The original features of many of the buildings still remain, particularly on the upper floors. #colwynbay #baecolwyn #northwales #gogleddcymru #localhistory

Station Road - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group

Laid out in 1887 Station Road was the centre of a popular shopping centre in North Wales up to the1960s.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d

A brown bear on tiptoes, stretching up for some tasty fruit in this Roman floor mosaic! 🐻 🍎

From Trier (ancient Augusta Treverorum). 3rd century AD.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a fragment of a Roman floor mosaic depicting a brown bear standing on its hind legs with its front legs raised/ leaning on the upper trunk of a tree laden with round fruit, perhaps apples, which are a favourite of brown bears! The bear raises its head, mouth wide, as if about to eat a fruit from the tree.

The bear’s outline is defined with black tessarae, and its fur is composed of dark and light brown tessarae. The fruit tree is covered with round orangy-red fruits amongst green and grey leaves. The trunk is coloured with olive and light brown tesserae. The background is made of off-white tesserae. This natural scene is supplemented by a small geyish green shrub between the tree and the bear, and in the background, a second tree without fruit.

This mosaic fragment was found in 1875 at Südallee, Trier. Dated 3rd century AD. It has been partially restored.

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous photo!

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 2d

#PowerAndPride2025 The Dyche Collection (MS 2912) is a photographic collection representing migration to Birmingham from Africa, the Caribbean, Indian Sub-Continent and Ireland after 1945 theironroom.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/e... #LibraryofBham @blackhistorymonth.org.uk

A photograph of a bride and groom in a car. They are seen from the car window – the groom on the left and the bride on the right. The groom is wearing a suit and dickie bow while the bride has her veil lifted over her head.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d

Illuminated page from the MacRegol or Rushworth Gospels. Dating to the early 9th century, it was written and illuminated by Mac Regol, Abbot of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. Now part of the collections at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxfordshire. 📷 My own. #ManuscriptMonday

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2d

Reflecting on a great working weekend on Ynys Môn/Anglesey with an incredible team of people from #OpNightingale, Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum, DIO & Manchester Uni

Well done, once again, to the brilliant @richardosgood.bsky.social for getting us all together 👌. Watch this space

Toby with a group of people including Prof Mel Giles

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 2d

#MosaicMonday

#Mosaic floor with #Orpheus playing the lyre and mythological #animals; from an oratory of a tomb in #Jerusalem.

#Roman Imperial Period Late Antiquity - Archaeological Museum in #Istanbul

#ancient #art #mythology #Archaeology

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Luisa A Jones Author @luisaajones.bsky.social · May 30

#WhatWeLeftBehind is here! It's the story of 5 #evacuee children from London's East End who turn librarian Dodie Fitznorton's life upside down when they're billeted at her mansion in #Wales during #WW2. Thank you to everyone who has read and reviewed the book. It means the world to me. #bookstoread

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 3d

I unearthed this recently. Taken by a talented photographer friend of mine in the 80s, it's of a stone circle near Nannerch in Flintshire. It's an oddity because it's not mentioned by local expert Ellis Davies in a work of 1949 and Aubrey Burl dismisses it as a folly. [Cont:
#StandingStoneSunday

A monochrome photo. Three stones forming a ring curve round a sawn-off stump. There is a low hill in the background crowned by young trees.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 3d

Two floating heads: all that's left of the medieval stained glass in the lonely little church of Llanychan in North Wales.
#StainedGlassSunday

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 3d

A quantity of Roman coins were found at Rhos Fynach. They date from the reign of Constantine The Great who was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity ( from 306 to 337.) #rhosonsea #llandrilloynrhos #northwales #gogleddcymru #wales #cymru #localhistory #haneslleol

The Marsh Of The Monks - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group

After reading about the amphora you may be interested in a site where a quantity of Roman coins were found. They date from the reign of Constantine The Great

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 3d

An Anglo-Saxon brooch from the collections of Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. The brooch was discovered in the early nineteenth century at St. Andrew’s Hospital in Northampton. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Northampton

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 4d

Detail from the 15th century rood screen of St. Mary’s Church at Pulham in Norfolk depicting St. John, including a dragon filled chalice! 📸 My own. #ScreenSaturday #Pulman #Norfolk

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Erwynj @erwynj.bsky.social · 3d

18/10/25
Mynydd Mawr efo @Didens6 🥾⛰️🐘

⛰️ Foel Rûdd (1,880 ft) •
⛰️ Mynydd Mawr (2,290 ft) •
⛰️ Bryn Cwellyn (853 ft) •

📍Man cychwyn:
Rhyd Ddu

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🥾6 milltir•
⛰️ 2,047’ esgyniad•
⏳ 2.5 awr•
⚠️ Anaddas i bramiau•

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Miss History G, Linda @misshistoryg2.bsky.social · 3d

De Morgan tile in situ at Blackwell, from 2025
These incredible lustre tiles by William De Morgan (1839-1917) were on a fireplace in a bedroom at lovely #Blackwell House, near #Windermere.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink #tiles #flowers #ArtsAndCrafts #art #Cumbria

A colour photograph roughly square. It shows a ceramic tile on a fireplace surrounded by plain cream lustre tiles of the same size. The pattern of two pink flowers and deep pink leaves, is very effective.

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 4d

Ethel was a true trailblazer whose determination and sense of civic responsibility led her to achieve many pioneering milestones. #colwynbay #baecolwyn #northwales #gogleddcymru #wales #cymru #localhistory #haneslleol #welshwomen #womeninwales

Miss Ethel May Hovey - Digital Exhibition - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group

Ethel Hovey’s name should be synonymous with Colwyn Bay and the history of women’s contributions in Wales. Yet, despite her remarkable achievements and

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Chicago Tafia Welsh Society @chicagotafia.bsky.social · 9d

Prince Madoc (or Madog ab Owain Gwynedd) was a Welsh prince who, according to folklore, sailed across the Atlantic in 1170, more than 300 years before Columbus.

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